Sagem Orga the First Company to Provide the New Generation 1 Electronic Health Card
The smart card expert Sagem Orga, in collaboration with the health insurer Techniker Krankenkasse, has become the first company to develop the next-generation electronic health card. This Generation 1 card will enable Techniker Krankenkasse to test and prove the online capability required of the cards and connected systems at an early stage.
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Robotised Tele-Ultrasound Examination via Satellite
Partners in the European MARTE (MOBILE And ROBOTISED TELEECHOGRAPHY) project, in collaboration with ROBOSOFT, carried out the first robotised tele-ultrasound examination via satellite. This demonstration was accomplished with an ESTELE robot entirely controlled by the robuBOX®.
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Collexis' BiomedExperts Rapidly Expanding its User Base
Collexis Holdings Inc, (OTCBB: CLXS) a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, announced that its premier professional scientific social networking site, Biomedexperts.com, has more than 30,000 registered users, enabling researchers across organizations and around the globe to collaborate more efficiently and effectively.
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New Technology Paves Way for Visually Impaired Internet Users
IBM (NYSE: IBM) previewed a unique Social Accessibility collaboration software, developed by IBM Research, which allows Internet users to improve Web accessibility, particularly for those who are visually impaired.
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NVIDIA Dramatically Accelerates the Search for a Cure
Stanford University's distributed computing program Folding@home has become a major force in researching cures to life-threatening diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson's disease by combining the computing horsepower of millions of processors to simulate protein folding.
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Open eHealth Foundation Defines Development Priorities
The Open eHealth Foundation (OeHF), an open source initiative for the efficient exchange of medical information based on existing standards, is officially registered as a nonprofit organization in Delaware. This milestone enables the foundation (which was launched at HIMMS 2008 by Agfa HealthCare,
InterComponentWare and Sun Microsystems) to begin operations.
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IHTSDO Launches New Global Effort to Build Essential Health Terminology Toolset
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced a global effort to improve access to tools needed to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. This effort is part of an Open Health Tools Charter Project jointly sponsored by IHTSDO, the National Health Service in the UK and Australia's National e-Health Transition Authority.
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